About Us
Unlike most other European and American mineral magazines, the UKJMM is produced by a small team of unpaid enthusiasts. We have no permanent members of staff and all revenues generated are ploughed back into improvements in the next issue, but with many other commitments, publication dates can be a little erratic!
Potted biographies of our group can be found below.
For a summary of the magazine's history by Mick Wolfe
click here.
David Green
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David Green has been with the UKJMM
since its inception, and is currently the journal editor. A
keen mineral collector for many years, he is the Keeper of
Mineralogy at The Manchester Museum. David's research interests centre
on the documentation and recording of sites of mineralogical interest
in the British Isles. He is a member of many mineralogical and
mining-related societies including the Russell Society, The Mineralogical Society
of Great Britain and the British Micromount Society.

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Jean Spence
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As secretary to the Doncaster Mines
Research Group Jean Spence contributed articles to the original
Rockbottom. Jean has been on the editorial staff since before
issue number 1 and is also a founder member of the British
Micromount Society and secretary of its northern branch. Following
Jean's retirement from teaching in 1989 she was able to spend
more time in her role as administrator despite heart bypass
surgery ten years ago. She is responsible for subscriptions; retail, foreign
and show sales; foreign agents; distribution; and accounting (with gratitude
to her ex-accountant husband). Jean has collected minerals for the
past 20 years and has been fortunate to collect from most of the
now defunct or forbidden mines and quarries in the UK.

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Peter Briscoe
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Peter Briscoe is also one of the founders
of the UKJMM who's prime responsibility now is marketing
of the Journal and bringing in much needed revenue by selling
advertising space. Like all the other members of the editorial staff
he is a member of the BMS. Additionally he also belongs to the Sussex Lapidary
and Mineral Society and the Peak District Minerals and Lapidary Society.
Peter's interest in mineral collecting began when walking in the
Caldbeck Fells but suggests this is not the recommended route at
present. As if the challenge of a full-time job and the Journal
weren't enough Peter has taken on the task of creating a web-site
concentrating on the minerals of the British Isles.

website: Rock-Site
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Mick Wolfe
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Mike Wolfe joined the team of three
others running the UKJMM in the summer of 1995. He was, at
that time, a Chartered Engineer and commercial executive employed
in industry. He has since retired but still continues as a director
and company secretary of the UKJMM. Mick's duties include
the coordination of financial activities and communications with
the Inland Revenue, Companies House and the accountants as well
as the occasional preparation of Mineral News. He also prepared
the index for issues 11 to 20 of the Journal. Mick is a member of
the British Micromount Society and was its chairman from 1987 to
1992. Although he maintains an interest in minerals his active collecting
is virtually nil due to ill health.

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Richard Bell
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Richard Bell works for a bank in Liverpool
as a statistics and information officer. For the UK Journal, he
is responsible for the Diary of Events and proof-reading of
the various articles that appear in the journal. He has been a mineral collector
for 30 years and specializes in minerals from the UK & Ireland. He
is also keen on minerals from Mont St.Hilaire, the Eifel and other volcanic
areas. He is also interested in the photography of minerals. Richard
is also a member of several mineral societies such as the British Micromount
Society.

website: Mineral
Paradise
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